Places sndikic Wants to Go

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

This historic timepiece is thought to be the only public clock in the world that keeps lunar time.

A bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the movies.

Inat Kuća, or "House of Spite," is more than just an oddly named restaurant.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This basilica is dedicated to two saints, one of which is known more for his famous quote.